Musnad Ahmad 2714

Translation

✧ The Prophet ﷺ used to pray eight rak'ahs at night, and then he would perform the witr prayer with three rak'ahs. He would pray two more rak'ahs, so when he said the takbeer, it became nine, six, and three.

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• Ibn Rajab

  غير قوي

  in مسند أحمد, p. 2740

Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 1707

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās

   One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   Yaḥyá b. al-Jazzār al-ʿUranī

   truthful (ṣadūq), accused of extremism in Shīʿismd. between 81 and 90 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنِ الْجَزَّارِصدوق ، رمي بالغلو في التشيع
   عن
3. 3
   Ḥabīb b. Abī Thābit al-Kāhilī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), an eminent jurist; he often narrated mursal reports (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs).d. 119 AH, or 122 AH
   حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍثقة فقيه جليل ، وكان كثير الإرسال والتدليس
   عن
4. 4
   Abū Bakr al-Nahshalī

   truthful (ṣadūq). Accused of Irjāʾd. 166 AH
   أَبُو بَكْرٍ ، يَعْنِي : النَّهْشَلِيَّصدوق . رمي بالإرجاء
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Abū Aḥmad

   trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), except that he may err in the narrations of al-Thawrīd. 203 AH
   أَبُو أَحْمَدَثقة ثبت إلا أنه قد يخطئ في حديث الثوري
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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